In 1901, Lord Alfred Milner was "lamenting" the "fact that the death rate among young children in the [Boer War concentration] camps was still not dropping. 'The theory that, all the weakly children being dead, the rate would fall off is not so far borne out by the facts,' Milner wrote. 'The strong ones must be dying now and they will all be dead by the spring of 1903.'" On October 14, 1901 the cornerstone for the Boer War monument was laid at Province House.

Yesterday, Tim wrote an item about the monument to the Boer War on the grounds of Province House: I don’t care about the parking one way or the other, but can we discuss that damn Boer War monument? [Jean] Laroche goes on to interview Joe Ballard, president of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, who says […]

1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products. When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]

On the eve of African Heritage Month, Alexandre Bissonnette shot six people in a mosque. Two of the victims were Black, from Guinea, and all the men originated from Africa. Yet in the public discourse around the shootings, Blackness and anti-Black histories in Quebec were erased from the narrative. Public vigils invoked rhetoric of a […]

News 1. Deaths in Custody, Again. This week brought another death in custody in Nova Scotia. …Paul Dauphinee Jr. was found in unresponsive in his cell at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth on Nov. 2. Dauphinee Sr. and family members made the heartbreaking decision to remove life support on Nov. 5, and […]

My mother wanted to watch the Olympic opening ceremony with me. Here is some of her commentary. On selfies: “They say selfies increasing the lice!” Note: I’m guessing because people are putting their heads together for pictures more? I don’t know. On the information that some countries are wearing “Zika pants” infused with mosquito repellant: “I […]